Strip the Aston Martin Valkyrie back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: 6.5 L Aston Martin-Cosworth RA naturally-aspirated V12, 1160 hp. Aston Martin built from 2016 to 2024, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Adrian Newey / Miles Nurnberger drew it. The total made was 275.
The background
The Aston Martin Valkyrie (also known by its code-names as AM-RB 001 and Nebula) is a limited production hybrid sports car collaboratively built by British automobile manufacturers Aston Martin, Red Bull Racing Advanced Technologies and several other parties, in order to develop a track-oriented car entirely usable and enjoyable as a road car, conceived by Adrian Newey, Andy Palmer, Christian Horner and Simon Sproule; Newey, who was Red Bull Racing's Chief Technical Officer at the time, contributed directly to the design of the car.
The engineering
Power comes from 6.5 L Aston Martin-Cosworth RA naturally-aspirated V12; 1160 hp is the published figure. It weighs 1340-1355 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 866 horsepower — hypercar territory, where the limiting factor is the tyre, not the engine. It shifts through a 7-speed Ricardo transmission single-clutch automated manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2770 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lamborghini Centenario, the McLaren 650S, the McLaren P1 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Aston Martin stablemates include the Aston Martin Mark II and the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.
Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH